You know what to do! Screenshots (or videos, I guess) of your awesome buildings, mechanisms, circuits, towns, ramparts, and discoveries! I'll just put the small screenshot from my review here as a placeholder:

The server doesn't care about your graphics card, and the physics client-side very likely does not take advantage of PhysX either, so probably only makes a difference for your framerate (plus that of course display takes more of your CPU, leaving less time for physics). I'd just blame Notch's terrible coding.

Well, the button triggers the TNT, and there are two sets of TNT. The first one is the projectile, and the other is the propellant. The button triggers the propellant and sends a signal through redstone repeaters to generate a delay. After the signal passes through the delay, it triggers the projectile. This prevents the projectile from exploding at the same time as the propellant, which would be terrible and could kill you. The propellant is in a trough of water, so when it explodes nothing gets damaged, it just produces a tremendous amount of force. The force launches the projectile, which can explode in midair, land and them explode, or bounce off of something.

That's really cool! It sounds like it's a fire-once sort of weapon; I would expect that firing it destroys it pretty well from the explosion of the propellant, no? On a side-note, I took some in-progress shots of my Evocat.us build, which I will post soon.

FWIW, it doesn't blow up and destroy the cannon because of the water that you use. Just felt the need to add that

Yeah, I did some more reading and found out about that. Out of curiosity, does anyone know of a client-side mod that will generate a birds-eye view of an area of a server somehow? Like a map sort of thing? My friend ElderofMagic has a mod that creates a cool little compass and map in the top corner of the gameplay screen, but I want a bigger, more encompassing map/view type of thing. I'm on the seventh tower of my promenade! Its extents cover about 300x300 now, I think.

FWIW, it doesn't blow up and destroy the cannon because of the water that you use. Just felt the need to add that

Yeah, I did some more reading and found out about that. Out of curiosity, does anyone know of a client-side mod that will generate a birds-eye view of an area of a server somehow? Like a map sort of thing? My friend ElderofMagic has a mod that creates a cool little compass and map in the top corner of the gameplay screen, but I want a bigger, more encompassing map/view type of thing. I'm on the seventh tower of my promenade! Its extents cover about 300x300 now, I think.

Creating a 2D top-down map of the save file should be trivial. After all, the maps are all just 2D pixel planes with a 3rd dimension of depth. Hell, you could even render each level of blocks as a layer in photoshop.

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